Standards/Standards System
A generally accepted formal technical document for products, procedures, and policies
What is a Standard?
type of standard developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies through the use of a voluntary consensus based process
What is a voluntary standard?
What is ANSI?
Substantial agreement has been reached and is more than a simple majority but not necessarily unanimity
What is Consensus?
Members that can vote and participate in the development committees
What is a P Member?
Standards, Conformity assessment or compliance to them
What is Standardization?
a voluntary standard developed in accordance with ANSI Essential Requirements
What is ISO?
Open to anyone materially interested affected by activity in question
What is openness?
Members that can only receive documents from standards development committees?
What is an O member?
Standards that have received Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards
What is JPEG?
banking standards
What is a Product Standard?
What is IEC?
Diverse group of interests shall be sought
What is Balance?
Mirror Committees of international counterparts
What is a Technical Advisory Group?
A standardization system where standards development priorities are driven by government or national standards bodies
What is top down standards system?
ISO 9001
What is a Management System/Quality Standard?
Promotes international cooperation on all questions of standardization in the fields of telecommunication and radio communication
What is ITU?
Any person, company, government agency with a direct and material interest has a right to participate
What is Due Process?
established and dissolved by parent committee and responsible for progressing the technical activities of a distinct aspect of program of work
What is a Sub Committee?
A standardization system where standards development priorities are driven by users and markets
What is bottom up standards system?
Safety of Wire Ropes
What is a Performance based Standard?
assesses the conformity assessment activities assessing the competence of conformity assessment bodies
What is ANAB?
the process shall not be dominated by any single interest
What is Dominance?
created by TC or SC and have a defined focus for either a single standards project or multiple projects
What is a Working Group?